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tim geithner headed the bank of new york. he doesn't have the ties to wall street that a wall street executive might provide. jack lew did work at citigroup briefly, but he doesn't have deep ties there. this is a government person, but the president decided that that's what he needs in a time when he will have a pro trektive fight with republicans over spending cuts, over the budget, over the debt ceiling. this is where jack lew's experience and knowledge can come in and i would expect, sue, and tyler, that he would be confirmed pretty easily. even though he has tough questioning at confirmation. >> let's bring in steve liesman. he is low drama, low confrontation. he doesn't have wall street regulatory. who is lew? >> i think the first theng i will do is begin the series of puns beginning with jack lew's name. let me say more about jack lew, we call this one, you don't know jack. >> of course you do. >> this is a financial education. beginning with harvard and georgetown. but that never disqualified anybody. tip o'neill 93 an
tim geithner headed the bank of new york. he doesn't have the ties to wall street that a wall street executive might provide. jack lew did work at citigroup briefly, but he doesn't have deep ties there. this is a government person, but the president decided that that's what he needs in a time when he will have a pro trektive fight with republicans over spending cuts, over the budget, over the debt ceiling. this is where jack lew's experience and knowledge can come in and i would expect, sue,...
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and he doesn't have the experience in financial regulation that tim geithner brought to the job having head of the federal reserve bank of new york during the financial crisis. but jack lew is expected to be announced today. the pecked speculation about his replacement as white house chief of staff has centered in the last 24 hours around dennis mcdonna. sources tell me that dennis mcdonough is the chief candidate. ron biden has already been a contender. wool see whether the president pairs the announcement of a new chief of staff with jack lew's appointment today. >> so jack lew seems to have the nomination locked up. danny krugman is expected to be looked go ahead at for treasury secretary. >>> still, that's a subject for great discussion. now let's bring you up to speed with the action on today's global markets report. will i sixuan is with us. hi, sixuan. >> thank you, ross. that surprising number in trade data has helped beat sentiment in asia. the sensex index had a fresh 19-month high in trade before closing up .6%. airline stocks on upgrades. the shanghai composite finished in
and he doesn't have the experience in financial regulation that tim geithner brought to the job having head of the federal reserve bank of new york during the financial crisis. but jack lew is expected to be announced today. the pecked speculation about his replacement as white house chief of staff has centered in the last 24 hours around dennis mcdonna. sources tell me that dennis mcdonough is the chief candidate. ron biden has already been a contender. wool see whether the president pairs the...
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interesting how tim geithner in the book describes bob reuben. that will be a big wet kiss. >> good stuff, charlie. thank you so much. >> satellite operator dish launching a new dvr allowing subscribers to watch live tv from wherever their mobile device has connection. >> so happy about this one. we are live at the consumer electronics show with dish ceo joe clayton. ♪ [ woman ] if you have the audacity to believe your financial advisor should focus on your long-term goals, not their short-term agenda. [ woman ] if you have the nerve to believe that cookie cutters should be for cookies, not your investment strategy. if you believe in the sheer brilliance of a simple explanation. [ male announcer ] join the nearly 7 million investors who think like you do: face time and think time make a difference. join us. [ male announcer ] at edward jones, it's how we make sense of investing. at legalzoom, we've created a better place to handle your legal needs. maybe you have questions about incorporang a business you'd like to start. or questions about pro
interesting how tim geithner in the book describes bob reuben. that will be a big wet kiss. >> good stuff, charlie. thank you so much. >> satellite operator dish launching a new dvr allowing subscribers to watch live tv from wherever their mobile device has connection. >> so happy about this one. we are live at the consumer electronics show with dish ceo joe clayton. ♪ [ woman ] if you have the audacity to believe your financial advisor should focus on your long-term goals,...
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geithner. >> and the reason i say that is look, i -- i'm 67 years old. i have been gone from home for over a dozen years, doing various public service things. and i have come home, i have got nine grandchildren under seven, and i really want to stay home. so i don't want a full-time job either in the public or private sector. >> one final question, how disappointed were you that the president rejected the simpson-bowles recommendations? >> well, look, i was disappointed at the time. but i came to understand was that his goal was to use it as a framework for his discussions that he had with speaker boehner back in gosh, almost two years ago now. in his first effort to get a grand bargain. he felt that was the best way to be successful. if he had been right, he would have proven to be a political genius. unifor unfortunately, he was not. they didn't get a deal one and i was very disappointed. >> yeah, i think that was an historic moment to get that grand bargain. i know you worked hard on it with other members of the commission. it was clearly a missed opp
geithner. >> and the reason i say that is look, i -- i'm 67 years old. i have been gone from home for over a dozen years, doing various public service things. and i have come home, i have got nine grandchildren under seven, and i really want to stay home. so i don't want a full-time job either in the public or private sector. >> one final question, how disappointed were you that the president rejected the simpson-bowles recommendations? >> well, look, i was disappointed at the...
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. >> and when tim geithner was picked, having worked closely with hank paulson at the federal reserve bank during the crisis, people were comforted by that. they said, well, maybe he's not so liberal. well, as it happened, larry summers was an advocate of more stimulus than others in the administration. so you can't necessarily read that much. events are going to dictate, i think, whether this president adapts his own view necessary a way that people interpret it as going to the center or not. but for the moment, he knows where he is and where he wants to go. and he's picking somebody who can help them achieve his agenda. >> you know, the thing you point out, that this is a situation where business leaders probably wanted one of their own, they may argue they want somebody in there looking for pro growth policies. but maybe more important is somebody who was very familiar with the financial markets. that was somebody that tim geithner created a lot of confidence because he knew the markets so well, knew the underworkings. and when there were big issues, you knew there was somebody who
. >> and when tim geithner was picked, having worked closely with hank paulson at the federal reserve bank during the crisis, people were comforted by that. they said, well, maybe he's not so liberal. well, as it happened, larry summers was an advocate of more stimulus than others in the administration. so you can't necessarily read that much. events are going to dictate, i think, whether this president adapts his own view necessary a way that people interpret it as going to the center or...
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i'm told that tim geithner cleaned up the signature becoming treasury secretary. i have to say in all the issues of the country faces, what the signature of the next frsh ri secretary looks like is not one that keeps me awake at night. >> no, no. although easy to understand and why it's so viral this morning. >> it is amusing. >> thanks a lot. >> thank you, carl. >>> they invested in tumblr in 2007, twitter in '08 and twitter's new photo filter, spark capital invested in that company more than three years ago so how does spark know which start-ups are the winner? we'll talk to the founder and managing partner live after the break. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. >>> as initial investors of hot start-ups seeks that spark capital has a knack for predicting the next big thing but after a rocky fac
i'm told that tim geithner cleaned up the signature becoming treasury secretary. i have to say in all the issues of the country faces, what the signature of the next frsh ri secretary looks like is not one that keeps me awake at night. >> no, no. although easy to understand and why it's so viral this morning. >> it is amusing. >> thanks a lot. >> thank you, carl. >>> they invested in tumblr in 2007, twitter in '08 and twitter's new photo filter, spark capital...
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treasury secretary tim geithner gets the mint to make a one coin, the value, $1 trillion. then he takes that coin over to the federal reserve bank and deposits it. then the government writes checks against that trillion dollars. so that does that mean there's no need to raise the debt ceiling? joining us now to explain it all is deputy editor is the business insider. joe? >> how you doing? >> there's a law that says the treasury secretary can mint a platinum coin, how does that work? >> the treasury secretary does have broad discretion over specifically platinum coinage, the size of it, the denomination and so forth. a lot of people frustrated with the debt ceiling, it looks like the same thing in 2011, second time we don't think the debt ceiling is something to be used for a negotiating point, they're excited this could be a way to get around it. >> we showed that provision there. michelle and i were saying, this reminds us of zimbabwe. wouldn't this cause run away inflation? >> that's what people usually say, but it's important to make a distinction. in countries that se
treasury secretary tim geithner gets the mint to make a one coin, the value, $1 trillion. then he takes that coin over to the federal reserve bank and deposits it. then the government writes checks against that trillion dollars. so that does that mean there's no need to raise the debt ceiling? joining us now to explain it all is deputy editor is the business insider. joe? >> how you doing? >> there's a law that says the treasury secretary can mint a platinum coin, how does that...
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. >> now that the fiscal cliff deal is done, financial world looking to tim think geithner, who will step down around the time of president obama's inauguration january 20th even if there isn't a deal to raise the debt ceiling. the 51-year-old has been a key figure in fiscal cliff talks. white house chief of staff yord to be in the lead for that job. >> lawmakers took an oath of office. the house reelected john boehner as speaker. among those sworn in were two from the bay area, jared houghman. the district covers the north coast to oregon border and eric swalwell, representing california's new 15th district, peting incumbent, pete stark. it's expected to be a challenging first few months for lawmakers with several deadlines looming. here in washington it's out with the old, in with the new. do you swear and affirm you'll support the united states of the united states? >> the congress was sworn n it's a diverse gru. there are 81 women in the house and a record number of female senators, 20. age taijing the oath of office, the first hindu member, first butdist senator and first openly
. >> now that the fiscal cliff deal is done, financial world looking to tim think geithner, who will step down around the time of president obama's inauguration january 20th even if there isn't a deal to raise the debt ceiling. the 51-year-old has been a key figure in fiscal cliff talks. white house chief of staff yord to be in the lead for that job. >> lawmakers took an oath of office. the house reelected john boehner as speaker. among those sworn in were two from the bay area,...
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geithner. we knew he was going to leave. but now, he's saying he's going to leave right after the inaugural and not be around for that confrontation. >> reporter: that's right. not a surprise he's going. but he was going to follow through this fiscal cliff debate. that's only part-over. the debt limit fight's a big one. he'll have a new treasury secretary. it will almost certainly be jack lew, his current chief of staff. so, kind of a shuffling of chairs. but this is the last of the economic team left in the white house, geithner. >> jon karl, thank you very much. looking forward to you joining our powerhouse roundtable on "this week" this sunday. i'll also be interviewing senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell. >>> now, to the growing backlash over the movie "zero dark thirty." the movie chronicles the hunt for osama bin laden. three senators, including the chair of the senate intelligence committee, are now putting pressure on the cia to reveal just how much information it gave to filmmake
geithner. we knew he was going to leave. but now, he's saying he's going to leave right after the inaugural and not be around for that confrontation. >> reporter: that's right. not a surprise he's going. but he was going to follow through this fiscal cliff debate. that's only part-over. the debt limit fight's a big one. he'll have a new treasury secretary. it will almost certainly be jack lew, his current chief of staff. so, kind of a shuffling of chairs. but this is the last of the...
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lew would replace tim geithner who's wanted to step down for a year-and-a-half that has been with the president since the beginning of his administration. reaction already from financial services committee jeb hensarling this morning today. here is his portion of it. i congratulate mr. lew on his nomination that changing the name plate on the door of the treasury secretary office won't improve our economy or save the nation from impending bankruptcy. that can only happen with the needed change in this administration's chief economic policies. president obama has gotten his tax increases and now it's time for him and mr. lew, if confirmed, to focus on the need to cut spending. the other side of the president's so-called balanced approach to the debt reduction. we did have the nomination live on c-span. you can see it on the web site, c-span.org. this week >>> i think that collectivization of the minds of america's founding fathers is particularly dangerous because as i say so often in the book, they were not a collective unit, and presenting them as such intends to dramatically oversim
lew would replace tim geithner who's wanted to step down for a year-and-a-half that has been with the president since the beginning of his administration. reaction already from financial services committee jeb hensarling this morning today. here is his portion of it. i congratulate mr. lew on his nomination that changing the name plate on the door of the treasury secretary office won't improve our economy or save the nation from impending bankruptcy. that can only happen with the needed change...
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. >> and more work they have to do is to find a replacement for treasury secretary tim geithner, expected to leave at the end of the month. what is the administration saying about this search for his successor? they must be racing the clock now. >> that's right, they are. you have the debt ceiling, a battle coming up, there are other economic matters that have to be dealt with over the next few months and it's important for the president to make this election, we expect the president will be making some announcements as early as next week. we reached out to the treasury department yesterday, a spokesperson telling me that treasury secretary geithner will be around until around the inauguration, and that they won't talk exactly about the timing of his departure until a successor is named but no doubt, this is a crucial cabinet position that the president is mulling over while here on vacation in addition to some others as well, such as the cia, and the defense department, victor. >> dan lothian traveling with the president, thank you for joining us for that. let's see how the markets are r
. >> and more work they have to do is to find a replacement for treasury secretary tim geithner, expected to leave at the end of the month. what is the administration saying about this search for his successor? they must be racing the clock now. >> that's right, they are. you have the debt ceiling, a battle coming up, there are other economic matters that have to be dealt with over the next few months and it's important for the president to make this election, we expect the...
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i leave that to tim geithner. >> you could have a great year based on currency fluctuation and horrible year based on things out of your control. >> the kinds of things we're selling, a lot of them are long term capital goods. fluctuations day-to-day are not a big impact. large businesses are more impacted by fluctuations. the larger project whether building power plant or airplanes is less impacted. >> are you frustrated in the slowness of getting trade deals done? >> we had three trade deals done and we're now executing them. we had a record deal in c colombia. still banks think of colombia 10 years ago, not 21st century. it's been a strong market for energy and small business. >> where are we in small business? what's the left you'd like to see done? >> free-trade agreements? >> yes. >> i leave that to the trade reps. i think trade agreements are hard to do. look how long it took to get the last three done. they're just really hard to do. there's a lot of discussion. what i'm really focused on is emerging markets where we step in at the export import bank and close those deals. seein
i leave that to tim geithner. >> you could have a great year based on currency fluctuation and horrible year based on things out of your control. >> the kinds of things we're selling, a lot of them are long term capital goods. fluctuations day-to-day are not a big impact. large businesses are more impacted by fluctuations. the larger project whether building power plant or airplanes is less impacted. >> are you frustrated in the slowness of getting trade deals done? >>...